Resource Capacity of Academic Staff of Ural Federal District Universities: Qualitative Research by G. E. Zborovsky, P. A. Ambarova, V. S. Katashinskikh, E. V. Kemmet

“…The main results covered five resource blocks of the RPC: socio-demographic, research, pedagogical, the resource of interaction of the RPS and research teams, moral and symbolic. In aggregate and interrelation, 11 types of RPS resources were disclosed. …”
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Psychometric properties of the arabic version of occupational value with pre-defined ítems by Mona Eklund, Lisa Ekstam, Mariam Hassan, Pablo Bellosta-López

“…The Occupational Value with pre-defined items (OVal-pd), measuring three dimensions of occupational value; concrete, socio-symbolic and self-rewarding, was designed for that purpose.Aim To pilot an Arabic version of OVal-pd and evaluate its psychometric properties in terms of content validity, factor structure, homogeneity, construct validity, test-retest stability, floor and ceiling effects, and measurement error.Methods Snowball sampling was used to recruit Arabic-speaking persons living in Sweden (n = 55). …”
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A chaotic bursting-spiking transition in a pancreatic beta-cells system: observation of an interior glucose-induced crisis by Jorge Duarte, Cristina Januário, Nuno Martins

“…We provide a description of the crisis mechanism at the bursting-spiking transition point in terms of time series variations and based on certain amplitudes of invariant intervals associated with return maps. Using symbolic dynamics, we are able to accurately compute the points of a curve representing the transition between the bursting and spiking regimes in a biophysical meaningfully parameter space. …”
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Orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing‐based signal design for a dual‐function radar‐communications system using circulating code array by Yu Zhou, Wen Ren, Qiuyue Zhang, Sisi Chen, Linrang Zhang

“…Following the spatial angle of the communication receiver, the communication symbols are modulated to part of OFDM signal subcarriers occupying a specific frequency band. …”
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Voluntary Spatial Attention has Different Effects on Voluntary and Reflexive Saccades by Stephanie K. Seidlits, Tammie Reza, Kevin A. Briand, Anne B. Sereno

“…Antisaccades were always greatly facilitated following the engagement of spatial attention by symbolic cues (arrows) informing the subject where the upcoming saccade should be directed. …”
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Analyses of Mineral Content and Heavy Metal of Honey Samples from South and East Region of Turkey by Using ICP-MS by Serap Kılıç Altun, Hikmet Dinç, Nilgün Paksoy, Füsun Karaçal Temamoğulları, Mehmet Savrunlu

“…The substantial of mineral ingredients in honey may symbolize the existence of elements in the plants and soil of the vicinity wherein the honey was taken. …”
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New Information and Communication Technologies for climate services: Evidence from farmers in Ada East District, Ghana by Rebecca Sarku, Famous Addi, Emmanuel M.N.A.N. Attoh

“…Although new ICTs offer forecasts, usability is influenced by the relevance and comprehension of the content, location success and time, typography, symbols and graphics, language clarity, feedback and interactivity and ability to use the new ICT tools. …”
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Transformations of the Food Practices in Modern Russia: the Institutional and Discursive Determinants by N. N. Zarubina

“…This is reflected in the promotion of products through a system of symbols that appeal to irrational emotions, myths, habits and traditions. …”
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The influence of mineralogical composition and alkali reactivity for utilization of some Egyptian crushed granites as a concrete aggregate by Maged El-fakharany, Ahmed Omar, Mahmoud Abdellatif

“…Evaluating these granite rocks as aggregate used in concrete mixture is interesting by produced three mixes using the three studied granite aggregate symbolized (Red GA), (White GA) and (Grey GA), tested mechanically to give a more detailed for the obtained results to be not restricted for only studied granite aggregate criteria but also to follow the actual reaction of this studied granite aggregate with cement.   …”
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Chronic Kidney Disease in the Eastern Region of the State of Mexico: Implication of the Social Determinants of Health by Luis Enrique Hernández Gamundi, Donovan Casas Patiño, Alejandra Rodríguez Torres, Angélica Heredia Sánchez

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the voice of the disease is relegated to be devastating in its attention and way of living; income due to constant travel, medical care costs and unemployment conjugates a deadly trap that conditions the economic fragmentation of the patient; public policies are unattainable -referring to the transplant program-; culture shows a religious symbolism of protection to the health coupled with social stigmatization for suffering chronic kidney disease CKD; the health system transits in lack of service guarantees -dialysis, hemodialysis, lack of supplies-; gender shows equality in care but overload of women in patient care. …”
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Migración haitiana de tránsito: la ruta migratoria por Santiago de Chile y la aspiración de llegar hacia el norte global by Lissette Madriaga-Parra, Nicolás Gissi-Barbieri

“…In these environments, evangelical churches have emerged as critical spaces, providing both symbolic meaning and opportunities for building and strengthening migration networks. …”
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Sacral Space of Ethnic Buryatia: The Cult of Healing Springs by Marina M. Sodnompilova

“…The paper traces certain chains of changes in statuses of such springs: from ‘water of immortality’ once granted by deities — to symbols of holiness of Buddhist hierarchs whose efforts gave birth to a number of such arshans. …”
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Deconstructing the map of the paradigm struggle: tracing a nationwide debate on “I do not get it” in Art Magazine (Meishu) by Nan Li, Dawei Lu

“…Through thematic analysis, this article illustrates how the symbolic value and cultural meaning of the “internationalized” art discourse have changed among specific groups of artists and visitors within the Chinese sociocultural context. …”
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Ритуальний простір хатніх пологів: від профанного до сакрального by Олена Боряк

“…As a result, a closed space is modeled with clear boundaries, marking the «sacred» center, performing ritual actions and storing symbolic things, a space where predictions/prophecies become possible.…”
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PERCEIVING THE SACRED FEMININE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CYCLADIC FIGURINES AND JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES by T. V. Danylova

“…The Cycladic figurines may resonate with female archetypes in the male and female psyche, as well as symbolize the ontological primacy of creative unity of opposites, the integrity of consciousness and the unconscious. …”
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FORCED HAPPINESS AS A MODERN SOCIO AND CULTURAL IMPERATIVE by H. V. Khodus

“…The idea is that the right to happiness, to private pleasure and self-care are the basic ideas of the Enlightenment and transformed into a cult object of enormous industry in the modern consumer society, the viability of which depends on the effectiveness of the symbolic goods consumption. Thus, the defining feature of the modern market society becomes the intensification practices of fun, the emancipation of desires that not only frees the individual, does not make him happy, and on the contrary, the individual exists in the atmosphere of constant existential anxiety, which is expressed in the sense of danger not to be happy, not fit within the "emotional regime".…”
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Pont de Sant Jordi de Alcoy by Daniel Pérez Verdú

“…Its bell tower, along with the bridge of San Jorge, is one of the most symbolic buildings of the city. …”
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Joint Noniterative Beamforming Schemes for BER Minimization in Next-Generation Wireless Sensor Networks by Mohamed S. Abouzeid, Heba A. El-Khobby, Mahmoud A. A. Ali, Mohamed E. Nasr

“…Based on minimizing the optimization problem of the total mean squared error between the transmitted and received data symbols, the first beamforming scheme is proposed. …”
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Use of Badges as Achievements to Enhance Online Learning by B. V. Swaroop Raj, C. Divya

“…Background and Aim: Digital badges are electronic symbols used as microcredentials to document achievement or skills mastered such as course completion, professional development participation, or training completion. …”
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